Surveying For Habitable Interstellar Star Systems (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Fly by Probes - The Future of Astronomy
Early probes would be as small as we can build them and get useful equipment to another solar system, intact and powerful enough to transmit home. But later stage ones might be rather enormous, less like the voyager probe in size, and more like the starship voyager from star treck asw inour interstellar probes episode. Even the early ones will likely be bigger than the Voyager probe. Nearest fly by could have 100 kilogram rod slamming into a planet at half oer light speed is going to kick up a serious amount of debris. More debris than a four scale nuclear war on earth could have coming in around 14 or 15 thousand mega tons,. A million herosheme bombs.
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